The Sundance Film Festival has begun announcing the winners of the 2023 Jury and Audience Awards.
Among the judges present at the announcement, which was streamed live to the festival’s social media channels from the Ray Theater in Park City, Utah, were Jeremy O. Harris and Marlee Matlin for the US Dramatic Competition, Ramona Diaz and Carla Gutierrez for US Documentary Competition, Funa Maduka for World Cinema Dramatic Competition and Madeleine Olnek for NEXT.
Deadline will update this story with the list of winners as they come in. The 2023 festival featured 111 feature films and 64 shorts selected from 15,856 entries and screened in Park City, Salt Lake City and the Sundance Resort. More than 75% of the short and feature film works as well as many selected indie episodes will be available to stream via the festival’s online platform by January 29.
Sundance’s first in-person festival since the Covid pandemic was marked by some big sales — most of which we reported first. The first title to get a big deal was Chloe Domont’s Thriller Fair play, starring Phoebe Dynevor and Alden Ehrenreich, which went to Netflix for about $20 million. John Carney’s musical drama Flora and sonstarring Eve Hewson and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, went to Apple for about the same price, while Searchlight handled the impromptu ensemble comedy theater camp for about $8 million. Mubi recorded Ira Sachs’ relationship drama partsin talks with A24 to acquire the live Midnight title Talk to me from Tuesday.
Last year’s Sundance ceremony cemented the award history of four of the five 2023 Documentary Oscar contenders — those titles that are Navalny (Audience Award Documentary Film Competition, Festival Favorites Award), fire of love (Jonathan Oppenheim Editor’s Prize), Anything that breathes (Documentary Award of the World Cinema Documentary Competition) and A house of splinters (directing prize of the World Cinema Documentary Competition). The festival was even more relevant to last year’s awards race with Sian Heder’s Best Picture Oscar winner KODA and Best Doc Winner by Questlove summer of the soul both narrative and documentary emphasize the finger on the pulse of time.
Check out the list of winners below.
WORLD CINEMA DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION
Grand Jury Prize
The eternal memory (chile)
Director: Maite Alberdi
Director’s Award
Smoking sauna association (Estonia/France/Ireland)
Directed by Anna Hints
Special Jury Prize: Verite Filmmaking
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Director: Sarvnik Kaur
Special Jury Prize: Creative Vision
Fantastic machine (Sweden/Denmark)
Directed by Axel Danielson
FAMOUS WINNERS SVER
Amazon Studios Non-Fiction Book Award
Jess Devaney/Multitude Films
After all, that’s just life, Militia hand
Amazon Studios Fiction Prize
Kara Durrett
The Starling Girl
Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Award
The Pod Generation
Directed by Sophie Barthes
Gayle Stevens Volunteer Award
Carlos Sanchez
Author: Matt Grobar
Source: Deadline
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